Bug#339924: advi: fails to display inlined Postscript with current gs

[Meik Hellmund <Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de>]

Package: advi
Version: 1.6.0-6
Severity: normal


I just discovered that my old advi presentations no longer work. 
Since I have to give a talk next week, I tried to debug it -:)

What happens:
 zadvi /usr/share/doc/advi-examples/examples/test/demo.dvi.gz
  doesn't show inlined postscript but complains:
   Warning: Setting policy to -exec
   Warning: Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
   Warning: Error in Postscript
   Warning: Sys_error("Bad file descriptor")
   Warning: GS Terminated
   Warning: Sys_error("Bad file descriptor")
   Warning: GS Terminated
   ...
  
Reason: advi pipes the follwing to gs:
  ...
  (/usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/texc.pro) run
  (/usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/special.pro) run
  (/usr/share/texmf/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro) run
  ...
 
 It seems that this is no longer compatible with the "-dSAFER" option
 of gs, it crashes gs. 

Workaround for me: remove this option from gs.ml
This is perhaps not the best workaround for the package. Perhaps advi
should cat the contents of these files directly to gs?

Regards,  Meik


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages advi depends on:
ii  gs                       8.15-4          Transitional package
ii  gs-esp [gs]              8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  gs-gpl [gs]              8.15-4          The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6             2.1.10-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-5      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtiff4                 3.7.4-1         Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libungif4g               4.1.4-1         shared library for GIF images (run
ii  libx11-6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxpm4                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X pixmap library
ii  tetex-bin                3.0-10.1        The teTeX binary files
ii  xlibs                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-6       compression library - runtime

advi recommends no packages.

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